In exchange for our time, skill and efforts, we interns can request to have a place in classes that relate to our personal pursuits. For three weeks starting in late January, I was in the core class for the Certificate in Sustainable Building and Design. This course pans out to be three separate, intense one-week classes that take the...
Introducing The Tiny House! Built by former Yestermorrow student and wood shop intern Gillian Davis. Gillian designed her tiny house at Yestermorrow's Home Design class and, over the course of 2011, built the structure using a variety of recycled and surplus materials. An experiment in creating an affordable yet comfortable space without...
This invitation just in from our Master Planning Core Team…The Master Planning Core Team has authorized the formation of a Design Field Team. This volunteer group is needed to explore, articulate and demystify "design" as it is found at the Yestermorrow Design/Build School. The primary focus will be architecture and "built form"...
"So, what do you guys do at night?" Well, some nights we share. Skills that is. Interns are organizing a weekly Skillshare, to keep our minds, bodies and hands learning, even after hours. It gives us a chance to share something we care about with each other, and connect with students and staff members over more than beer and drywall screws....
As the 2012 Woodworking Certificate Program enters its third week, students are honing in from forests to fine woodworking. The 11-week intensive course began with sawyer Nick Zandstra, who took students out into the woods on Yestermorrow's campus to analyze trees and the wood they produce, and eventually demonstrate felling and small-scale...
I started working here about a month ago and I thought I would share what it is like to see and understand Yestermorrow for the first time…I learned about Yestermorrow when I was looking for a new place to live in Vermont. My wife and I stumbled upon the campus and went in for a tour, I immediately felt as though it was a place I would...
I find myself detouring through the studio whenever I can this week—stopping at a drafting table to look at a design in process or stepping back to take in anidea board of drawings, photos, and lists reading like so many prose poems. It’s the last week of the Core Program for the Sustainable Building and Design Certificate, and 12 students...
Two weeks ago, for Yestermorrow's eight arriving Woodworking Certificate students, a forest was a forest; a place to hike, or explore, or get lost in.Today, ten days later, for those same eight students, a forest is something completely different. It's a place of trees -- of cherry, and maple, and ash, and oak, and birch. It's a place of...
We have been forging ahead with our master planning process over the past few months, and I want to give a quick update on where we are and where we’re headed.First, we want to thank everyone who sent feedback in November in response to the design we presented at the faculty meeting and board meeting. The Core Team (made up of Kinny Perot,...
We were psyched to see a great post on the Core77 blog last week about Yestermorrow and our alternative approach to design education.Check it out at http://www.core77.com/blog/education/alternative_design_education_the_yestermorrow_designbuild_school_21644.asp
